Most Beautiful fish.....

carrie1429

carrie1429

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Yep your crazy, no I'm just kidding ;)
I agree that the mandarins are very pretty but there are many other fish that I think are prettier, course thats just my opinion. I personaly like the angelfish very much.
 
iechy

iechy

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I'm with you on that! As soon as my tank has a sufficient pod population there is a reserved space in my tank for one. I've always loved them and can't wait to get one now that I know what I'm doing, thanks to everyone around here. Unfortunately I killed many of them years ago when I was in high school and had a tank. Obviously the guy at the LFS didn't tell me anything about pods and I had a few starve to death from eating brine shrimp junk food. This time I'm going to wait and get it right.
 
dubba-r

dubba-r

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Beautiful fish indeed, though I don't have a sufficient or appropriate environment for one. But I would rate it behind angels though, especially emperors and of course my queen! :D
 
twoods71

twoods71

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Very nice fish to look at without a doubt.
Some of the angels and even a few tangs are very nice looking also.
 
musipilot

musipilot

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Beautiful fish. BUT...I gotta say ours is in a tank with a healthy flame angel, and everyone that comes to see the tank stares at the flame much more then the mandarin. I'm kinda torn...
 
catera

catera

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i just picked one up yesterday. i love it, it is gorgeous. he isnt moving around much so im hoping to go home and hell be flying around. do they stay mostly on sand or move onto the rocks?
 
jonthefb

jonthefb

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they go wherever they want! i think that these little guys truly are gorgeous, but after diving with a school of french angels, i have a new respect for them. nothing is cooler that seeing the fish in thier natural environment, and diveing with a school of like 20 dinner plate sized fish was just breathtaking!
good luck
jon
 
danrw84

danrw84

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Originally posted by Iechy
I'm with you on that! As soon as my tank has a sufficient pod population there is a reserved space in my tank for one. I've always loved them and can't wait to get one now that I know what I'm doing, thanks to everyone around here. Unfortunately I killed many of them years ago when I was in high school and had a tank. Obviously the guy at the LFS didn't tell me anything about pods and I had a few starve to death from eating brine shrimp junk food. This time I'm going to wait and get it right.
what is a pod population? How do you get one? I must have a mandirin as well. but dont want to kill the little guy. What should i do before i buy one. Ive got a cycled tank now with a few critters and polyps
 
carrie1429

carrie1429

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Pods are little white bugs that live in the sand and live rock. To have a good population you should have a DSB or at least some live sand, and you should have lots of LR. Pods are one of the main foods of the mandarin and to keep one alive you probably need pods.
 
sistrmary

sistrmary

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For me it's a toss up between mandarins and moorish idols. I think I favor the moorish idols because I don't have one yet. I'm a bit scared. If it died, I'd probably bail out of saltwater altogether.
I've had one mandarin die...and I knew it would die when I bought it. It had been in the LFS tank too long, it's sides were caved in. I brought it home hoping to give it a chance. It was the prettiest one I've ever seen. I have another one now, and I love it...but the first one was primarily orange...you don't see that very often.
 
shadow678

shadow678

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For me, it's a toss-up between my mandarin, my Australian harlequin tusk wrasse, and my CB angel. Pretty tough decision...
 
koiman6

koiman6

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I think madarins have the most interesting colration of any fish but they still aren't as good as butterflies and angels, but thats just me. I would love to have one.
 
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